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Recently, the blog IntLawGrrls featured a month-long series on the 1991 AJIL article ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’, by co-authors Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright. Here Hilary, Christine and Shelley conclude the series by reflecting on their article and its impact. View the original article here, and the IntLawGrrls series here. We would like to thank the editors of IntLawGrrls for allowing us to post ‘Looking Back on Feminist Approaches to International Law’ on Regarding Rights .

We are so grateful to Jaya Ramji-Nogales for organizing this IntLawGrrls series, to Jaya and our colleagues Sari Kouvo, Aoife O’Donoghue, Fiona de Londras, Siobhán Mullally, Doris Buss, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, and Diane Marie Amann for their generous posts, and to the readers who commented on those posts. It has been heartening to read the responses to our article and to see different ways of understanding it.

Our article, ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’, came to life in a haphazard way. Continue reading →